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WALTER S. GOODWILLIE, OF CHICAGO,

OLF CHIGAGO, ILLINOIS,

ILLINOIS, .ASSIGNOR "IO D. 1V1. GOOD'WILLIE (10.,

A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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1.,Qifliah152.

Application filed December 31, 1915.

To allwhom it may concern Be it known that I, VVALrnn S. Goonwnr LIE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county oi Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Boxes, of

which the following is a specification.

ivly invention relates to boxes or cases for supporting bottles and it relates particularly to that class of boxes sub-divided into bottle receiving compartments and intended for use in storing or delivering bottles.

"Ordinary boxes or cases have been built for various kinds of bottles but such cases do not possess the required strength and thus fail to ail'ord ample protection, and they are also more or less unsanitary in that they cannot be readily cleansed. Take for example cases to be used in the handling and delivery of milk in bottles. These boxes or cases are usually open at the top and are more or less roughly handled and consequently the boxes must possess great strength. They must also be so constructed that they can be thoroughly and eiliciently cleaned to be kept in sanitary condition, as during the handling of milk more or less drops into the case and dirt has also a tendency to collect in the corners.

The important object of my invention is to produce a strong and rigid bottle containing case sub-divided into pockets for the individual reception of bottles and having an open bottom which lessens the chances of dirt settlement and which allows the case to be quickly and thoroughly flushed out and cleaned. The invention will be better understood when described in connection with the accompanying drawing in which- Figure 1 is an under side view of a box involving my improved features,

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on plane 22, Fig. 1,

1 1g. Fig. 2,

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of one corner of the box, and

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of a longitudinal and a transverse partition board showing the manner in which they are interlocked and jointed together.

The box shown has side walls 10 and 11 and the end walls 12 and 13, the end walls being rabbeted as indicated at 14; for re- 3 is a sectional view onplane 3-3,

' ceivihg the ends of the side walls, the end Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1917.

Serial No. 69,647.

and side walls being secured each to the other as by means oi nails 15 and 16. On their inner sides and at the lower sections thereof the side and end walls have the vertical grooves 17 and 18 respectively, these grooves being spaced to receive the ends of longitudinal and transverse partition members 19 and 20 respectively, these partitions "forming the rectangular pockets g) each of a size to receive one bottle. As best shown in Figs. 3 and 5, the longitudinal and transverse partitions are interlocked and jointed together to thus form a rigid pocket construction. As shown, the longitudinal partitions have the slots 21 extending half-way up from their lower edges and the transverse partitions have the slots 22 extending halfway down from their top edges. The slots 22 are of less width in the direction of the partition than the thickness of the longitudinal partitions, and the longitudinal partitions above the slots 21 therein are grooved on opposite sides as indicated at 23 and 24-, the thickness at such grooves being substantially the same as the width of the slots 22. In the construction shown, the slots 21 in the longitudinal partitions are of a width substantially equal to thethickness of the transverse partitions. With this con struction, when the longitudinal and transverse partitions are fitted together the slots 21 of the longitudinal partitions receive the lower sections of the transverse partitions below the slots 22 and the sections of the longitudinal partitions between the grooves 23 and 24; fit snugly into the slots 22, the grooves receiving the edges of the transverse partitions adjacent the. slots 22, the partitions being then securely interlocked and snugly interjointed to form rigid and strong individual pockets. The longitudinal and transverse partitions can be separately inserted into the side and end wall grooves 17 and 18, or the partitions can be first interlocked and interjointed and the resulting pocket structure inserted as a whole into place between the side and end walls of the box.

In accordance with my invention 1 do not provide a continuous bottom for the box, preferably keeping the bottom open as much as possible in order to reduce chances for accumulation of dirt and for facilitating cleaning and insuring sanitation. 1 provide just enough bottom to afford sufficient sides and 11.

surfaces for the outsidesof theside arrangement disclosed serves as indicated at 84; the .box sides as seating area for the bottles in the pockets and vfor holding the partitions in place. As shown on the drawing, the grooves 17 and 18 are sufiiciently longer than the height of the partitions that when the partitions have been inserted there will be space for strips 25 below the ends of the transverse partitions and within the lower edges of the box These strips are rigidly secured to the sides as by means of nails and ock the transverse partitions in place in the box.' I also provide intermediate longitudinal strips 26, these intermediate strips 7 running parallel with and below the longitudinal partitions, and preferably their ends are extended into recesses 27 in the box ends to form secure jointure therewith, the box ends being preferably nailed to the strips as indicated at 28, and the strips being also nailed to the partitions as indicated at .29. The intermediate strips are sufficiiently wider than the thickness of the longitudinal partitions in order that they may provide su porting surfaces 30 for, the bottles in t e pockets, the outer strips 25 forming seating pockets. Thus only sufiicient bottom is provided in the box to securely support the bottles, in the pockets whileat the same time the strip to strengthen the box and to lock the ,pocket partitions therein. The bottom being thus open the box can'be readily cleaned in any desired .manner as by flushing out with a stream.

In smaller boxes the side and intermediate longitudinal strips will be. sufficient, but in larger boxes or those requiring greater strength transverse strips may be prov ded,and these strips will'be belowand parvallel with the transverse partitions, and the longitudinal :and intermediate strips and thesetransverse strips will preferably be interjointed. In the drawing I have shown such transversestrip secured below the ,mid dle transverse partition and this strip has the grooves 32 in its upper side while the intermediate longitudinal strips have corresponding grooves 33 in their upper sides, these grooves serving to rigidly joint the strips @together. The transversestrips may also be nailed to the transverse partitions and may alsobe :nailed to indicated .at 85. Wlherc transverse strips are used additional .sea tbefore stated,

1 together is very strong and durable and particularly adaptable for resisting the rough usage to which boxes of this class are subjected and to amply protect the conta'ined bottles during such usage. The box parts and the partitions and strips can be slotted and grooved by theordinary machines and can then be readily and quickly fitted and interlocked and secured together. As

the open bottom makes the .box much more sanitary and also takes oil considerable of the weight. In thedrawing .I have shown the ordinary hand-holes 36 in the end walls by means of which the box can readily :be handled.

I do not, of course, desire to be limited tothe exact and precise constructions and arrangements shown and described as changes and modifications are no doubt possible which would still come within the scope of the invention. I claim the following:

'In a box, the combination with side and end walls rigidly secured together, said walls having spaced vertical straight slots on their inner i-faces extending upwardly a distance from the lower :edges of the walls, longitudinal and transverse partitions intersecting and jointed together and-engagingat their-ends in said slots and subdividing the box into a pluralityof pockets, side strips secured to the side walls below the transverse partitions and above the lower edges of the side walls, intermediate longi'tuc'linal strips secured to the end walls above the :loweredges thereof and running below the longitudinal partitions, .a transverse strip secured to the side walls above the lower edges thereof and interjo'inted Withsaid in- :termediate longitudinal strips and running below the central transverse partition, said strips being of a width to project justa su fffic ient distance beyond the sides of the par- WALTER s. 'ooonwILLI-u.

.Uoliies .of this patent may be olitainedfor fivelcents each, byaddressiug the COmm isSioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G. 

